According to foreign media reports, in February this year, Ford’s sales in the United States fell by 9% year-on-year. Although electrified models, including pure electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles, sales of fuel vehicles (ICEs), which account for more than 85% of delivered volumes, fell by nearly 13%. In February, U.S. consumers demand for Ford hybrids was strong, with sales rising 27.5% year-on-year to 15,357 units; consumer demand for pure electric vehicles rose 15% to 7,326 units. Among them, Mustang Mach-E became the highlight, with 3,312 units sold in the United States in February, a year-on-year […]
According to Bloomberg, the latest data released by the French Automobile Association Plateforme Automobile (PFA) shows that due to the decrease in Stellantis’s car sales, the number of new car registrations in France in February fell by 0.7% year-on-year. According to PFA data, last month, the number of new car registrations in the French market was 141,568, down from 142,595 in the same period last year; in the first two months of this year, the number of new car registrations in the country was 256,241, a year-on-year decrease of 3.3%. From the perspective of enterprises, in […]
Registration data released by the Malaysian Automobile Association (MAA) shows that in January this year, Malaysia’s new car sales fell 27% year-on-year and 40% month-on-month, down from 66,923 units in the same period last year to 48,732 units. The sharp decline was mainly attributed to the reduction in working days caused by the Malaysian Lunar New Year holiday. At the same time, car purchase activities also fell significantly after the sales record due to year-end promotions in December last year. In the past three years, the Malaysian automobile market has rebounded strongly from the trough […]
After Porsche’s chief financial officer Lutz Meschke and chief sales officer Detlev von Platen unexpectedly announced their resignation, the board of supervisors acted quickly to reach an agreement on the two successors. From now on, Porsche welcomes two new executives: Jochen Breckner, 47, will take over the finance department, while Matthias Becker, 54, will take over the sales field. The change marks the return of the Porsche board to its full lineup again. Wolfgang Porsche, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, commented: “We are deeply pleased to discover two outstanding successors, Jochen Breckner and Matthias Becker, […]
According to Bloomberg, the U.S. tariffs on Canadian and Mexican products could cause U.S. auto prices to rise up to $12,000 and wreaking havoc on the North American supply chain. After the U.S. taxes on Canadian and Mexican products, the cost of producing a crossover utility vehicle will increase by at least $4,000, and the cost of electric vehicles can increase up to $12,000, and those costs are likely to be passed on to consumers, according to a new study by Anderson Economic Group, a Michigan auto consulting firm. “This […]
According to foreign media reports, in order to accelerate the process of corporate transformation, Audi announced that it will establish a new “transformation, consulting and organization” department from March 1, 2025 to integrate all transformation-related functions. This measure is another important strategic deployment after the implementation of serial organizational structure adjustment at the beginning of the year, aiming to enhance corporate competitiveness by optimizing organizational efficiency and simplifying management processes. However, Audi will also lay off employees in this restructuring. Audi said the head of its new division, “Transformation, Consulting and Organization” is led by Yvonne Bettkober, who […]